[87135] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Clueless anti-virus products/vendors (was Re: Sober)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Mon Dec 5 20:28:39 2005
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 20:25:47 -0500
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <43937945.10607@JustThe.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 03:18:29PM -0800, Steve Sobol wrote:
> Blocking based on rDNS simply because it implies that a certain piece of
> equipment is at that address is... not advisable.
Agreed. Those blocks aren't in place because there's a certain piece
of equipment at those addresses (hostnames); they're in place because
all of them have emitted spam.
---Rsk
